Village
A village of some 205 inhabitants of the Comunidad de Villa y Tierra of Cuéllar, crossed by the Autovía de Pinares; its parish church is dedicated to Our Lady of the Assumption and on 15 September it honours the Cristo del Humilladero.
Monument
The church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción, in Pinarejos (Segovia), was built in the late 12th or early 13th century in Romanesque-Mudéjar style and was declared a Bien de Interés Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection) in 1995. It has a single nave with a rectangular chancel ending in an apse, a Baroque interior and a 13th-century bell tower; its atrium, with arcades of historiated capitals, draws attention. It preserves early medieval wall paintings with warriors in combat and a bullfighting scene, possibly the oldest in the province, and on the north wall there is a Last Supper. The parish is dedicated to Nuestra Señora de la Asunción, whose feast is celebrated on 15 August; the village also honours the Cristo del Humilladero, with a festival on 15 September.
Activity
On 15 September the village celebrates the Cristo del Humilladero, the second of its two great festivals; the humilladeros were the crosses or chapels that marked the entrances to Castilian villages.
Curiosity
Pinarejos is one of the municipalities with the highest proportion of residents of foreign origin in the province: around 30% of its 205 inhabitants in 2025, a demographic turnaround that has halted the depopulation of the pinewood.
Historical milestone
Pinarejos was part of the sexmo of Navalmanzano, one of the six sexmos into which the Community of Villa y Tierra de Cuéllar is divided, whose historic capital is the town of Navalmanzano itself. Alongside Pinarejos, this sexmo included Zarzuela del Pinar, Sanchonuño, Gomezserracín, Campo de Cuéllar, Chatún, San Martín y Mudrián, and Navas de Oro, as well as other settlements now deserted, such as Pelegudos, Gallegos, Losánez, Garci Sancho, Tirados and La Hirvienza. The community received a royal charter (fuero) from Alfonso X in 1256.
Curiosity
The Autovía de Pinares (A-601) links Valladolid's outer ring road with Segovia's ring road over 104.6 kilometres, managed under a shadow toll. Until 1984 the route was part of the old N-601; in the late 1990s the road was widened and bypasses were built in various towns, including Pinarejos, which was brought into service a few months before the motorway's full inauguration in 2008. Since then it has crossed the municipal area and connected this village, at 818 metres above sea level, with Cuéllar, Gomezserracín and Navalmanzano, changing within a few years the accessibility of a historically isolated region.
Monument
The presbytery of the church preserves fifteenth-century International Gothic wall paintings with the scene of Santiago at the battle of Clavijo and other warlike episodes, an exceptional ensemble in the Tierra de Pinares.
Monument
On the southern side of the church opens a portico supported by Romanesque columns, the space where the council met and where the residents sheltered before going in to mass in the winters of the meseta.
Monument
The thirteenth-century Romanesque fabric is recognisable in the rectangular apse of the chevet, while the tower is topped by a pyramidal spire that stands out above the roofs of the houses.
Monument
The interior superimposes several periods: on the medieval fabric Baroque altarpieces were installed and a group of silverwork was gathered with processional crosses and a monstrance that the parish church still preserves.
Curiosity
The traditional houses of the village were raised with Toledan bond: a brick framework filled with adobe and whitewashed afterwards, the building technique characteristic of the villages of the Tierra de Pinares.
Historical milestone
At 1.7 kilometres from the village, beside the stream of Las Arroyadas, stood the hamlet of Tirados, documented until 1785 and vanished in the course of the eighteenth century like so many minor places of the Tierra de Cuéllar.
Nature
The municipal district preserves two lagoons of revealing name: El Bodón and Las Adoberas, the latter associated with the extraction of the mud with which the adobes of the village houses were kneaded, seasonal wetlands on sandy ground.
Nature
The stream of Las Arroyadas crosses a municipal district of 29.7 square kilometres at 818 metres of altitude, dominated by the pine wood that gave the village its name, already called Pinareios in thirteenth-century records.
Activity
The village has signposted the Ruta de los Exploradores, an itinerary that runs through the pine woods and the lagoons of the municipal district and allows a close look at the tapped pines and the seasonal lagoons of the sandy ground.
Activity
On 15 September the festival of the Santísimo Cristo del Humilladero is held, a month after that of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción of 15 August, the two great occasions of the calendar of Pinarejos.
Curiosity
Resin tapping, abandoned for decades, has returned to the pine woods of Pinarejos: the trade of the resin tapper is being recovered as a profitable activity and has become one of the few arguments against depopulation.
Food and drink
Alongside timber, resin and pitch, the pine nut has for centuries been one of the products of the pine wood of Pinarejos; it is gathered from the cone of the stone pine and gives its sweet touch to stews, sweets and sauces of the comarca.